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NOTES AND QUERIES. [iis.vm.ocT.-4, 1913.

Pearle, late of the Parish of St. Buttolphs without Aldgate, London, silkweaver, deceased, being on shipboard, and pressed for Her Majesty's service into the Low Countries, whereof Sitell Pearle, widow, his mistress, understanding, went to him. on shipboard and required him to return home and serve out his apprenticeship ; he replied that he was bound for sea, and therefore would not. Thereupon she further demanded of him what should become of the goods and household stuff which was given him by the will of Mar- garet Godfrey, his late mother, deceased, if he should not return to England. He answered that in that case he bequeathed the same to his kinswoman Jane Tyrret, of the parish o/ St. Dunstans in the Est, London, whom he made his full executor. .. .Spoken by Robert Seaver ... .in or about the 44th year* of the reign of our late Sovereign Lady (Elizabeth)."

Neither St. Buttolph's graveyard nor regis- ters yield any further information, but among the records of baptisms in St. Dun- stan's occurs " Anne, dau : of Tho : Terrett," 24 Jan., 1593/4.

There was another Robert Seaver, born about 1608, who emigrated to America in the Mary and John, of London, on 24 March, 1633/4. He settled at Roxbury, Mass., and married Elizabeth Ballard on 10 Dec., 1634. He became the ancestor of a family, members of which contributed to the history of their adopted country, and who are now widely known and distinguished in Massachusetts. No connexion has been traced between them and my own family, of co. Armagh. But I am led to believe that the Severs or Seavers of London are the ancestors of Robert Seaver of America, and I shall indeed be grateful for any informa- tion concerning them that your readers can supply or suggest. GEORGE SEAVER.

Thornby Vicarage, Leicester.

PEREGRINE POUCHBELT AND RODERICK RAMROD, QUEBEC. The above were the noms de crayon of two officers, evidently of the 32nd Regiment, in Canada in 1839, who published the rare lithographs (dated from " 32 Carronade Square, 1839 ") of the uni- forms of the Volunteer Corps of the day.

Have the names of these artists been preserved ?

DAVID Ross McCoRD, M.A., K.C.

Temple Grove, Montreal.

JOHN HODSON, BISHOP OF ELPHIN. I should be glad to know if there is any memoir of this bishop, or whether anything is known as to his parentage.

LEONARD J. HODSON.

Robertsbridge, Sussex.

1606/7 by Jane Tirret, the executrix named.
 * I.e., 1602. The will was proved in March,

" TRANSLITERATION." The earliest ex- amples of transliterate and transliteration sent in for the ' Oxford English Dictionary ' are from Prof. Max Miiller in The Saturday Review of 1861. vol. ii. p. 247, where they are used as if well-known words. They are not used by A. J. Ellis in his ' Essentials of Phonetics,' 1848 (where transcribe and transcription, or symbolic transcription, are- regular ly used) ; but they find a place in ' Webster's Dictionary,' ed. 1864. Scholars- of 70 and upwards are under the impression, that they have known them all their lives ; but impressions of this kind are often; fallacious. If any examples can be found before 1861, the * Dictionary ' editors will be glad to have them.

J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

J. WILCOCKE, PAINTER. A portrait of a gentleman, not badly painted, that has- been hanging in a Warwickshire house- probably for 200 years, has this inscrip- tion : " JEt. 49, J. Wilcocke pinxit, 1704." Is- any thing known of this painter ? He is not in the ' D.N.B.,' nor in any list of painters that I have seen. The portrait will not fit any former owner of the house wherein it hangs, but Sir Charles Skrimsher, of Xor- bury, co. Stafford, who died in 1708, aged 56, has some connexion with the house, as his mother died in it in 1712, aged 90. Is there a Staffordshire painter of the name ?

S. H. A. H.

AUTHOR OF HYMN WANTED. -I cannot find the author of the hymn on p. 65 of Lord Beauchamp's ' Madresfield Hymn- Book ' :

Weep, Holy Angels ! Lo ! your God

Man's sinful likeness wears ; Fpon the bitter cross of shame Our sin the Saviour bears !

LAWRENCE PHILLIPS. Theological College, Lichfield.

' ICONOGRAFIA GALiLEiANA.' (See ante,

6229.) About 1836 Solomon Alexander art, II. A., painted an oil picture of 'Milton visiting Galileo in Prison.' There is an engraving of it in the British Museum ; but is anything known of the original picture, or of its whereabouts ?

In 'N. & Q.,' 10 S. ii. 426, 492 there are notes of portraits of Galileo. Can the writers (MESSRS. C. WATSON and WHITE- HOUSE) now add anything further on the subject ? MR. WHITEHOUSE'S mention of a picture (?an engraving) by Vendersypon is especially interesting to me.

J. J. FAHIE,